In 1973 the Centers
for Disease Control (CDC) amassed 150 million vaccines to prevent the
spread of swine flu. According to the CDC, the mass vaccination campaign
was discontinued after 45 million Americans had been inoculated in 77
days. Why? Because the vaccines, which had not been adequately tested for
short term much less long term effects, caused a large percentage of
people to develop Guillean Barre—a chronic, virally- transmitted
encephalopathic disease (The Idaho Observer, July, 1999). What did the CDC
learn from the swine flu debacle? That vaccines must be tested for short
and long-term effects? That vaccines must be subjected to rigorous quality
control policies? That some people have medical histories or current
physical conditions that contraindicate the administration of a vaccine?
No. The fact that the federally administered experimental vaccine that
ruined thousands of lives taught the CDC to recognize the importance of,
“an on-going vaccine program,” and that “having a pandemic
preparedness plan is important (Preparing for the Next Influenza
Pandemic, satellite broadcast, February 26, 1999).”

Understanding
this “one-size-fits-all approach to herd immunity from infectious
disease is handy when one must contemplate federal concerns for the
individual when the day comes when we are forced, at gunpoint, to take the
smallpox vaccine that is described in the following article.

U.S.
Department of Human and Health Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced
last October that the U.S. government had made arrangements to acquire 300
million doses of smallpox vaccine—enough for every man woman and child
in America. This is the Bush administration’s plan to protect the
American people from the threat of biological terrorism in the event that
terrorists would use smallpox against us.

The government’s plans to mass vaccinate the nation will cause the death
of as many as 300 people and will cause mild to severe reactions in up to
70 percent of the vaccinated population. Those figures are based upon
previous experience with the old smallpox vaccine used up until 1980 when
the World Health Organization certified the world free of smallpox. The
repercussions could be worse as we have no way of knowing how safe new
generations of smallpox vaccine will be, nor do we know how safe it will
be to dilute old smallpox vaccine that could be up to 40 years old.

According to the Associated Press, even the American Medical Association,
a staunch advocate of vaccination, refused to endorse the mass smallpox
vaccination plan at its annual winter meeting last Dec. 4 in San
Francisco. “The 538 delegates attending the meeting voted overwhelmingly
to continue studying the possible repercussions of such a mass
inoculation,” the AP story said.

Timeline

Routine
vaccine against smallpox was discontinued in the U.S. as of 1971.

The
last reported case of smallpox was in Somalia, 1977.

WHO
certified the world as being “smallpox free” in 1980.

The
WHO asks all labs to either destroy their variola (lab-created smallpox
vaccine) stocks, send them to the CDC in Atlanta or to reference labs in
Moscow (this is before the fall of the Iron Curtain). According to the CDC,
“All countries reported compliance.” (1980)

The
U.S. armed forces stopped vaccinating military personnel against smallpox
in 1990.

Smallpox virulence

Though smallpox differs clinically from chicken pox, it is clinically
indistinguishable from monkeypox and cowpox—diseases that continue to
ravage communities of people throughout the third world even though WHO
had certified the world smallpox free. The New England Journal of Medicine
reported August 20, 1998, that, “There are reports of cases of smallpox
in various parts of the world ‘masquerading’ as monkeypox. In Central
Africa, the clinical picture of monkeypox [is identical to] that of
smallpox.”

Published medical science shows that, while the WHO may have credited
smallpox vaccine for having rid the world of smallpox, electron microscopy
cannot distinguish between cow, buffalo, monkey, turkey, canary, pigeon,
ortho, rabbit, white, or sheep poxes.

“Vaccinia (wild, natural smallpox) can last up to 24 hours as an aerosol
if not exposed to UV light. “Vaccinia is almost completely destroyed
within six hours in high temperatures (90F) and 80 percent humidity. In
cool temperatures it can last up to 24 hours.” ~Journal of the American
Medical Association (JAMA), June 9, 1999, Vol. 281, No. 22, pg. 2135.

It is believed that the variola virus, the one used in smallpox vaccine,
would behave similarly. Given the pathogenic limitations of both the
vaccinia and variola viruses, ordinary quarantine protocols would arrest
an outbreak of smallpox.

The pathogenesis of smallpox alone makes it an unlikely choice as a
biological weapon for terrorists. The fact that there are at least 65
other biological agents that are more virulent than smallpox decreases the
likelihood that it would be the disease of choice among terrorists.

The vaccine

According to the CDC’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (June 20,
2001), the “level of [vaccinia] antibody protection needed to protect
against smallpox [variola] infections is unknown.”

In other words, nobody knows if the injection of man-made smallpox will
cause the creation of enough antibodies to protect against the disease.

There are currently about 15 million doses of smallpox vaccine in stock.
They are old vaccines produced prior to 1981. The plan is to increase the
existing supply to 75 million doses by simply diluting the old stock. The
National Institutes for health is currently recruiting volunteers to test
and compare 5-to-1 and 10-to-1 dilution doses made from old stock.
Long-term complications of this vaccine will not be available by the time
mass vaccination is underway.

The U.S. government, apparently without congressional oversight,
contracted the British pharmaceutical company Acamibis to produce an
additional 50 million doses by the end of 2002. It is not certain where
the balance of the 300 million doses needed to vaccinate all Americans
will come from. We do know, however, that the Department of Defense (DoD)
is planning to acquire vaccine production capabilities as soon as
possible. The DoD intends to run government owned, contractor operated
vaccine production facilities to insure adequate supplies of eight
vaccines in case of bioterror attack. Not surprisingly, smallpox and two
types of anthrax are three of them.

The plan is modular and the DoD plans to expand its vaccine production
capabilities to eventually include all types of vaccines (DoD, Report
on Biological Warfare Defense Vaccine Research & Development Programs,
July, 2001).

The new vaccinia virus vaccine to be produced by Acamibis will be cultured
in human connective tissues harvested from cadavers and aborted fetuses.
The new vaccine has yet to be tested in people.

Vaccine side effects

The old vaccine produced mild reactions such as a low grade fever in 70
percent of people vaccinated. Twenty percent would experience a fever in
excess of 102F. Other mild reactions include generalized rash within 10-14
days or an infection at the point of inoculation.

Moderate to severe reactions include more serious rashing over entire
body—a condition that could become serious to those with an already
compromised immune system. The condition may worsen to general skin
exfoliation and can be communicated to others. There are cases where this
form of generalized vaccinia, particularly in those who contract the
condition from a vaccinated individual, have been fatal.

Progressive vaccinia, another possible side effect of the smallpox
vaccine, is a progression of necrotic (dead) tissue from the vaccination
site—a condition that can be fatal.

Postvaccinal encephalitis (swelling of the brain tissue) is the most
serious complication and is fatal in 25 percent of cases that develop and
cause permanent neurological complications in 25 percent of those who
survive. Postvaccinal encephalopathies are most common in persons who are
immunologically compromised before being subjected to the smallpox
vaccine.

According to JAMA (June 9, 1999, Vol. 281, No. 22, pg. 2132), “It has
been estimated that if 1 million people were vaccinated [against
smallpox], as many as 250 would experience a severe reaction.”

In other words, the vaccine would cause severe reactions in one in every
4,000 people vaccinated.

Contraindications

“Contraindication” is the term used to disqualify people from being
subjected to various medical interventions based upon such criteria as
existing medical conditions and prior histories. For the U.S. government
to order a smallpox vaccine for every man, woman and child in the U.S.,
regardless of contraindications, is the pinnacle of medical illogic and
contrary to established medical science, previous experience and
international law.

*People
who have a history of eczema or live with others who have a history of the
skin condition should not be vaccinated with smallpox vaccine.

*People
who have a history of acute/chronic exfoliative skin diseases or live with
others who have a history of such diseases should not be vaccinated with
smallpox vaccine.

*Persons
with immunosuppressive illnesses or persons who live with others who have
immunosuppressive illnesses should not be vaccinated with smallpox
vaccine.

*Pregnant
women, those who have cancer or have had a solid organ transplant are also
contraindicated for the smallpox vaccine.

These contraindications alone would significantly reduce the numbers of
people who qualify for smallpox vaccination to a level that would make
mass-vaccination against smallpox ineffective even if the vaccine worked
better than simple hygiene and established quarantine procedures.

Smallpox prevention:

The rational approach

Smallpox is a disease of filth. Straw-filled mattresses and carpets, which
are largely a thing of the past in the U.S., were the happy home of cimex
lectularius (the common bedbug). Filth, malnutrition and ignorance are the
conditions that allow smallpox to thrive.

The most definitive work on smallpox to date was conducted by Dr. Charles
Campbell of San Antonio, Texas, in the ‘40s. After years of observation and
experimentation, Dr. Campbell concluded that smallpox is transmitted only
by the bite of an infected bug and the severity of the illness is
proportional to the degree of malnutrition evident in the infected person.

Dr. Campbell’s work was overlooked by the scientific community because
smallpox vaccines were more profitable and had already arrived on the
scene. It appears that even if one suffers mild to severe reactions to the
smallpox vaccine, or contracts the disease as a result of biological
terrorism, the severity of the illness will still be proportional to the
health of the infected party. According to Dr. Sherri Tenpenny, an
osteopath from Cleveland who conducted most of the research for this
article, infectious disease prevention is accomplished with:

Diet

Sleep

Water

Vitamin
C

Vitamin
A

B
complex vitamins

Eat a well balanced diet with plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables and
avoid excess meats, fried foods, dairy products, white sugar, white flour,
alcohol and coffee. Also get plenty of rest, drink as much as half your
body weight in ounces of purified water each day and make sure that your
body gets enough A, B and C vitamins. To “immunize” yourself from the
potential ravages of infectious diseases such as smallpox, keep a clean
house and a keep your mind and body in good shape by making lifestyle
choices that are conducive to good health.

Why then mass
vaccinate?

One has to wonder why the U.S. government would scare people into
believing that the best way to prevent terrorists from killing everyone
with smallpox is by vaccinating every man, woman and child in America with
vaccines that are either old, diluted or experimental and may cause mild
to severe reactions in at least 70 percent of the vaccinated population.
We have to expect that the U.S. government has access to the same
information we do. Published science and field experience prove that
inoculating the entire American public against smallpox is inappropriate.
As a preventative against an imagined threat that terrorists will use this
easily managed disease is medically absurd at best because mass
vaccinating us with smallpox would likely cause an epidemic worse than a
biological attack.

I suspect that the purpose of such a program is intended to be contrary to
theinterests of public
health. A mass vaccinated public would either be killed by the vaccine,
severely damaged by the vaccine or moderately damaged by the vaccine. In
all cases, vaccinated people would be less able to oppose the police state
that has arrived in the land of the free. I also have a suspicion that
each dose will contain a microchip so that those who are not medically
subdued by the smallpox vaccine could be controlled electronically.
The former sentence may seem paranoid, but the technology exists and this
would be a marvelous opportunity to slip Americans a microchip..

This entire scenario, however absurd, dovetails perfectly into the Model
State Emergency Health Powers Act that we discussed in the Nov. edition of
The IO.

Barbara Loe Fisher, president of the National Vaccine Information Center
put it all into perfect context when she said, “If the state can tag,
track down and force individuals, against their will, to be injected with
biologicals of unknown toxicity today, will there be any limit on what
individual freedoms that state can take away—in the name of the greater
good—tomorrow?